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Chapter 1818 My Aunt is the Empress 25
The sixth prince is now the crown prince, and the place where Linlang will marry is the East Palace in the palace.

In her original world, she had visited the Eastern Palace twice and remembered it, so Linlang was quite familiar with the place.

Since the Sixth Prince had no concubines, Linlang's marriage to him was naturally quite harmonious.

There's no need to worry that the Sixth Prince's mother is unreliable; if she were, Linlang definitely wouldn't have chosen the Sixth Prince.

The sixth prince's mother was alright, but she was frail and sickly, and rarely saw anyone, preferring to recuperate in her palace.

This was actually a good thing, because when Linlang visited her on the second day of her marriage, she instructed that from now on, she only needed to pay her respects to the Empress in the palace, and not to her, saying that she needed to rest and recuperate. This naturally saved Linlang a lot of trouble.

However, although there was no need to pay respects, Linlang still came here every day, but she didn't go inside to see her. She only bowed to her in the palace courtyard before leaving.

After all, it's acceptable not to greet someone, as that's an elder's consideration for the younger generation. However, the younger generation should show respect to the elders, otherwise it would be considered that the younger generation doesn't know the rules. Linlang is willing to do this kind of simple favor that isn't too troublesome—she won't do anything that's too troublesome.

Sure enough, after she did this, she saw the sixth prince's mother, Consort Zhang, say to her confidante that although she came from the powerful Zhou family, she was not arrogant, which was very good.

Actually, Linlang is good because she treats people well. If it were a mother-in-law who thought she was good because she wasn't arrogant, but instead thought she was easy to bully and didn't appreciate her honesty, and wanted to take advantage of her, then she definitely wouldn't be so honest. She would show the other party what she was made of and let her know that her lack of arrogance was a sign of respect for her elders, not a sign of being at someone's mercy.

Needless to say, Linlang has traveled a lot and has actually encountered such a bullying mother-in-law—when her daughter-in-law is shrewish, she pitifully tells everyone that her daughter-in-law is no good; when another daughter-in-law comes into the family, she doesn't cherish her, thinking that the other is easy to bully, and starts to take advantage of her.

Some ignorant and foolish old people are like that, bullying the weak and fearing the strong, and they don't deserve anyone's kindness. Fortunately, Zhang Fei is not that kind of person.

The sixth prince's birth mother, Consort Zhang, treated Linlang well. According to etiquette, Linlang's proper mother-in-law, the Empress, who was also the original owner's aunt, treated Linlang even better.

The sixth prince wasn't her biological son, so there was naturally no mother-in-law/daughter-in-law conflict between her and Linlang. Besides, Linlang was her niece, and the two were relatives. Before she entered the palace, she treated Linlang well. Now that she had entered the palace, she had family members to talk to and wasn't lonely, so she naturally treated Linlang even better.

So after Linlang entered the palace, she lived quite well there.

Unlike the original owner of this body, the eldest and third princes were scoundrels, and their mothers were no better. When the original owner married the eldest and third princes, they were already crown princes. The original owner married into the Eastern Palace, and their mothers probably thought that their sons' ascension to the throne was a sure thing and that they didn't need to be afraid of the Zhou family. So their attitude towards the original owner was not good, which caused her to have a difficult time after marrying into the Eastern Palace.

However, the emperor was still alive at this time, and the eldest and third princes had not yet ascended the throne, so at most there were some conflicts between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law, which were still within the original owner's tolerance range.

Once the eldest and third princes ascend the throne and secure their positions, that's when the real hardship begins.

Linlang observed the Sixth Prince's mother and found her to be similar to what she had investigated; she was indeed a decent person. She secretly nodded, thinking she had made the right choice. It's worth noting that her willingness to marry the Sixth Prince was partly due to his mother. After all, among the ten eligible princes, the Sixth Prince wasn't the only one without other women; the Eighth and Ninth Princes were also currently without other women, but Linlang felt their mothers were far inferior in character to the Sixth Prince's mother. Therefore, after observing that the Sixth Prince had no problems, Linlang chose him over the Eighth, Ninth, or Tenth Princes.

Linlang had originally thought that if she couldn't find a suitable one among the ten princes, she would have to find a way to persuade Master Zhou to let her marry freely, and leave the task of marrying off a prince to the other girls in the Zhou family.

However, after investigation, it was found that the sixth prince was alright, he himself was alright, and his mother was also alright, so Linlang chose him.

That's why they say genes can sometimes be inherited. Consort Zhang was a good person, and the Sixth Prince inherited that trait; he's not a bad person either.

Not long after Linlang got married, Master Zhou quickly arranged for Zhou Erniang to marry as well.

Zhou Erniang has been quite a handful these past few years, but unfortunately, Master Zhou is even more powerful, keeping her locked up tight. Even if she wanted to run away, she couldn't, which saved Linlang the trouble of dealing with her.

Her aunt felt sorry for her daughter when she cried and wanted to help her by asking Master Zhou to release her. However, her aunt was timid and dared not tell Master Zhou about it, so Zhou Erniang was kept locked up until she got married.

The family that Master Zhou found for Zhou Erniang was very strict, so after Zhou Erniang got married, she never left the house. She couldn't do what she did before at her parents' home, running around and causing trouble. Just as Master Zhou had expected, nothing happened.

Later, because in Linlang's world, the emperor was the last to appoint a crown prince, the emperor died not long after the sixth prince became crown prince.

At that time, Linlang was pregnant and her body was not in good condition, so she avoided many things as much as possible, which meant she didn't have to work hard. Otherwise, after the emperor's death, there would have been many things to do, which would have been very tiring. Linlang was able to enjoy a peaceful life with her child, which saved her a lot of trouble.

With the emperor gone, the country could not be without a ruler for even a day, and soon the sixth prince ascended the throne.

Now, it's time to test whether the Sixth Prince keeps his word. Linlang wants to see if this Sixth Prince is different from the First Prince and the Third Prince.

Not long after the sixth prince ascended the throne, some ministers submitted a memorial requesting that the emperor select a concubine.

These ministers were certainly not concerned with the Sixth Prince's happiness in bed, since they couldn't really concern themselves with the Emperor's affairs. Rather, they wanted to place their own daughters in the harem and see if their grandsons could become Emperor in the future, which is why they made this suggestion.

Some people who hadn't sided with the Sixth Prince lost out on the merit of supporting the emperor, so they wanted to send their daughters into the palace to make up for it.

The Sixth Prince wasn't stupid; he could easily see through their plans. However, he didn't want the daughters of these opportunists as his concubines. After all, they hadn't stood by him or helped him before he ascended the throne, and hadn't contributed anything to his rise. Now that he was in power, they wanted to take advantage of him. There was no such thing as a free lunch. He immediately declared that although the late emperor had passed away not long ago, and the country couldn't be without a ruler for even a day, so the mourning period was shortened to twenty-seven days before he became emperor, he would still observe three years of mourning like an ordinary person in private, and they would discuss it again after that.